Abu Dhabi - The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has filed a complaint to the United Nations against Iran for establishing offices on disputed islands in Gulf waters, the official Emirates news agency reported on Friday.

The agency reported that the UAE government has sent a letter to UN Secreatary General Ban Ki-Moon protesting the Iranian move, which it regards as one that would negatively affect bilateral relations.

Abu Dhabi, August 11 : Three Indian workers, who were duped by a recruitment agent in India, and were left stranded in the UAE, have been provided with air tickets to home.

According to a report in Gulf News, the victims are from the state of Tamil Nadu, who arrived in UAE as a group of ten after they each paid the agent 100,000 Indian rupees.

However, the agent only provided them with visit visas and disappeared upon their arrival in the UAE.

The workers had been promised food and shelter until they were fully settled in their new positions, but were shocked after realizing that they had been tricked.

Abu Dhabi/Baghdad  - A partial solar eclipse was visible Friday in several Arab states with people in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Iraq going out onto the streets to watch it despite the summer heat.

In the UAE, a partial solar eclipse stayed for almost two hours, allowing hundreds of people to observe it.

In Iraq's capital Baghdad, many preferred to see the partial eclipse that stayed for an hour on TV, taking the advice of doctors who warned against looking directly at the sun.

Abu Dhabi, July 28 : The Naturalisation and Residency Department of the Government of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) may not charge certain nationalities a visa deposit fee to enter the region.

Brigadier Nasser Al Awadi Al Minhali, Acting Director-General of the Federal Naturalisation and Residency Department was quoted by The Gulf News as saying that the mandatory 1,000 dirham visa deposit fee, transit and some other types of visas could be waived for certain nationalities.

The UAE will not charge 34 nationalities for an entry visa and the free entry permit on arrival will remain unchanged, Brig Al Minhali said.

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Abu-Dhabi - Terrorists may be planning to carry out attacks in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the British embassy in the Gulf country said Monday.